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iPod iPod Capacity Full, Is it Safe to Operate
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they gave it 30GB for a reason. of course you can fill it up!!
it might run just a tiny bit slower if 100% full, but it would be nothing like if you completely filled up a computer hard drive. i never go below 20 GB on my hard drive as far as free space.
it might run just a tiny bit slower if 100% full, but it would be nothing like if you completely filled up a computer hard drive. i never go below 20 GB on my hard drive as far as free space.
This is a valid question, let me get that across. But just seeing this topic makes me feel laugh as someone who's had an iPod since December of 2001. I applaud Apple for continuing to reel brand new customers in, but I feel so... old. Which is even more odd, since, well, I'm twenty.
That's pretty extreme, isn't it? How much swap space are programs hogging these days? It looks like it's getting bad enough to justify an entire separate harddrive just for swap. (my OS partition has 1Mb free... ahh, the joys of not having virtual memory
)My iPod has 1.4Mb free and no problems. I assume iPods use RAM (or dedicated partiton) for decoding swap space.
An iPod does not need swap space like a computer hard drive does, so filling it up is no big deal.
The only interesting thing that you might experience is if you add and delete music, the drive could get fragmented over time, I suppose - I have no proof of this. I'd say that if you are going to run it that full and you have deleted lots of songs over the years with it, to restore it factory settings (reformat?) and reload it. That might increase the seek time for all songs if you were ever experiencing a slowdown.
blah blah blah - this is all in an extreme case in theory. Not that I've ever had such a problem...
The only interesting thing that you might experience is if you add and delete music, the drive could get fragmented over time, I suppose - I have no proof of this. I'd say that if you are going to run it that full and you have deleted lots of songs over the years with it, to restore it factory settings (reformat?) and reload it. That might increase the seek time for all songs if you were ever experiencing a slowdown.
blah blah blah - this is all in an extreme case in theory. Not that I've ever had such a problem...
i now leave a little free room on my iPod (about 1GB)
a while ago if my iPod was full, the next sync would always throw up an error (unknown error number -422 or something) and i would have to do a complete restore, and a complete re sync, never found out what the problem was or if its now fixed, its just better for me to leave a little spare room on the iPod than to have to sync 30GB of music and films just to put on a podcast or a new album.
granted this was about 6months ago, just got into the habit of leaving some space.
a while ago if my iPod was full, the next sync would always throw up an error (unknown error number -422 or something) and i would have to do a complete restore, and a complete re sync, never found out what the problem was or if its now fixed, its just better for me to leave a little spare room on the iPod than to have to sync 30GB of music and films just to put on a podcast or a new album.
granted this was about 6months ago, just got into the habit of leaving some space.
Good God, man! Are you insane!? Your iPod could explode; it would be a catastrophe - MP3s everywhere! How are you going to pick them all up again? Eh? Eh? Tell me that!
Madness! Madness I tell you!
You irresponsible kids ...
Cheers!
Jim
Exactly, come to think of it, your iPod will self destruct within 5 seconds once it hits less than 1 GB free.....